From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2006-02-09T02:01:46+09:00 Subject: Re: block_given? vs defined? yield Hi, In message "Re: block_given? vs defined? yield" on Thu, 9 Feb 2006 01:42:30 +0900, Daniel Berger writes: |Is there any difference between "block_given?" vs "defined? yield" ? They are almost same. The only difference is the former is a method, and the latter is a syntax (no call), and consequently the latter might be a little bit faster, but practically you can consider them same. matz.